Year: 2016
Author: Denis Vovchenko
Genre or theme: the history of the Russian Empire, the history of the Ottoman Empire, the Balkans
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019027669X, 9780190276690, 9780190276676
Series: Religion and global politics
English language
Format: PDF
Number of Pages: 360

Highlights international and domestic efforts to contain ethnonationalism within traditional religious and dynastic institutions in the Ottoman Empire
Emphasizes elements of continuity in relations between Russia and Ottoman Christians
Investigates the relationship of Russia to Muslim Slavs from Bosnia-Herzegovina and Bulgaria, comparing the importance of religion and ethnicity in Russia and the Balkans from a new angle
Offers new analysis suggesting ethnonationalism did not eclipse religious and dynastic identities at the turn of the twentieth century
Containing Balkan Nationalism highlights the efforts by ecclesiastics, publicists, and diplomats in Russia, the Ottoman Empire, Greece, and Bulgaria to develop and implement various plans to reconcile ethnic differences within existing religious and dynastic frameworks. Those arrangements were often inspired by modern visions of a political and cultural union of Orthodox Slavs and Greeks.
Denis Vovchenko is Associate Professor of History at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, OK. He is the author of articles and reviews in scholarly journals such as Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal of the History of Ideas, Middle Eastern Studies, Kritika, and Modern Greek Studies Yearbook.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Russian Messianism in the Christian East (1600s-1853)
Chapter 2. Building an Ottoman Civic Nation: Secularization and Ethnicization of Christian Minority Institutions (1853-1860)
Chapter 3. The Bulgarian Minority in Search of Ottoman and Orthodox Autonomous Institutions (1860-1870)
Chapter 4. Reconciling Rival Ottoman Orthodox Churches (1870-1875)
Chapter 5. Making Peace in Times of War (1875-1885)
Chapter 6. Coping with State-sponsored Balkan Irredentism (1885-1914)
Chapter 7. Russians and Muslim Slavs: Brothers or Infidels? (1856-1914)
Conclusion
Index

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